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Military service
Service number:
A/104433
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 3, 1921
St. Agatha, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 11, 1942
London, Ontario
Death:
January 5, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV, E, 19.
Additional information
Son of Simon and Christina Ditner, of Petersburg, Ontario.
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Sergeant Hubert L. Ditner, 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. Wounded by a German machine gun while leading a counterattack at the Naviglio Canal in Italy, Sergeant Ditner died hours later of his injuries.He served in the United Kingdom and North Africa prior to fighting in Italy and was mourned by his parents and eight brothers and sisters on the farm where he was raised in Petersburg, Ontario. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Headstone - St. Agatha Roman Catholic Cemetery, Ontario placed by his family, post war. -
Grave Marker
Temporary/Wartime Grave -
Wartime diary
4th PLDG War Diary 04/05 January, 1945 With Entry Re: Evacuation, Sergeant HL Ditner.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Hubert Laurence Ditner
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Hubert Laurence Ditner
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Hubert Laurence Ditner
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Hubert Laurence Ditner
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Hubert Laurence Ditner
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Hubert Laurence Ditner
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 509 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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